Craft knowledge and sustainability

Understanding Sustainability as Knowledge Practice

Sustainability, Knowledge Management and the Internet

The thesis is developed that the key to human survivability and sustainability lies in our ability to make use of knowledge tools primarily the latest electronic ones, namely, computers and the Internet. We show that computing and the Internet are part of a evolutionary chain of languages which also includes speech, writing, math, and science, where language is defines as communications plus in...

The Craft Consumer : Culture , craft and consumption in a postmodern

This article proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of an additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’,‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity-seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially both ‘made ...

Craft and Technology

This presentation seeks to contextualise current work by makers using new technologies by discussing ways in which technology can be defined and the theoretical frameworks within which these definitions sit. It will briefly highlight some of the common ways in which we discuss technology and technological mediation, and relate these beliefs to particular characterisations of technology. This wi...

Knowledge-based system for manufacturing sustainability

Today, sustainability becomes one of the biggest challenges. It represents a key issue in every production activity. To face this issue, a possible solution is to enhance knowledge usage in manufacturing and sustainability domains. In this paper, we extend the ONTO-PDM ontology for formalizing sustainable manufacturing knowledge. An industrial case is presented for instantiating the extension. ...